Control: retitle -1 gtkmm-documentation: directory vs. symlink conflict: /usr/share/doc/gtkmm-3.0
On 2013-02-17 17:06, Michael Biebl wrote: >> >From the attached log (usually somewhere in the middle...): >> >> 0m55.2s INFO: dirname part contains a symlink: >> /usr/share/doc/gtkmm-3.0/tutorial (gtkmm-documentation) != >> /usr/share/doc/libgtkmm-3.0-doc/tutorial (?) >> >> Hmm, looks like gtkmm-documentation installs something in the documentation >> directory of another package, but that has changed to a symlink inbetween ... > > This symlink didn't exist in squeeze, so I'm unsure which directory was > converted to a symlink > At least /usr/share/doc/gtkmm-3.0/tutorial never existed as an actual > directory afaics, or can you be move specific from which versions of > which packages you upgraded. Actually, it's not an upgrade issue, I can reproduce it in sid alone (and probably wheezy as well). So let me try a new template describing the problem: Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed your package installs files over an existing symlink shipped or created by another package. Installing something over existing symlinks is considered bad practice. See e.g. http://lists.debian.org/87ehlevcrf....@windlord.stanford.edu It may break in subtle ways and dpkg cannot discover this as a problem. * Your package might silently overwrite files installed at the symlink destination by other packages. * If the package shipping the symlink decides to make the link point somewhere else (or turn it into a real directory) the files owned by your package "will be lost" somewhere in the filesystem. * Depending on installation order the problematic path will be created either as a symlink or a directory and dpkg intentionally does not replace directories with symlinks and vice versa, see in particular the end of point 4 in http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-unpackphase The package that gets installed (just unpacked is enough) as second has "lost". (Note: Adding Pre-Depends is *not* a solution.) Please move the files shipped in your package to the "real" location. Your package ships: /usr/share/doc/gtkmm-3.0/tutorial -> ../gtkmm-documentation/tutorial but libgtkmm-3.0-doc ships /usr/share/doc/gtkmm-3.0 -> libgtkmm-3.0-doc >From the attached log (usually somewhere in the middle...): cheers, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
